KungKras on 11 January 2016
| OneKartVita said: How can you say we need that constant population growth to fuel the economy? The world population needs to go down not up. Sooner or later we need to realise the solution to better economies is not "more people". |
On a global scale, yes. But our countries' economies are still built on return on investment, and for that to happen more often than not, markets need to grow, and that in part means population growth.
This is unsustainable environmentally, but it's how our economy has been set up for hundreds of years. Maybe sometime in the future, the world can come together to solve this, and develop a better system, but right now it is in the economical interest of the state for its markets to grow, so that we can compete in the international stage and maintain our standards of living.
Also Sweden has a pretty low population density, so in terms of natural resources, we can afford to have population growth.
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